The Insane Experiment
2023, Danish. Directed by Lotte Mathilde Nielsen & Thure Lindhardt.
A drama documentary tells the story of one of the biggest psychiatric scandals in Danish history.
From 1960 to 1973, Chief Physician Einar Geert-Jørgensen and a small select team of doctors treated several hundred Danish psychiatric patients with LSD in a basement at Frederiksberg Hospital. A large number of patients suffered serious consequences, and the LSD doctors were accused of subjecting patients to experimentation, coercion and lethal treatments with LSD, but were acquitted of all charges. But now, 60 years later, a secret archive of LSD doctors has emerged, casting doubt on the authorities’ decision in one of the most bizarre drug scandals in Danish history. Journalist Lotte Mathilde Nielsen is the director, and actor Thure Lindhardt has directed the dramatisation, using all his cinematic experience with dramatic reconstructions and star actors like Søren Pilmark and Amalie Dollerup in the roles of the LSD doctors.
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Danish
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- Released
- 17 March 2023
- Original title
- Det sindssyge eksperiment
- Country
- Denmark
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The Insane Experiment isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 17 March 2023. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Insane Experiment?
If you liked The Insane Experiment, try Van Gogh: Painted with Words, Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, All That Breathes.
Who directed The Insane Experiment?
The Insane Experiment (2023) was directed by Lotte Mathilde Nielsen and Thure Lindhardt and stars Einar Geert-Jørgensen, Søren Pilmark, Amalie Dollerup.